Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CATALOGUE OF THE STOWE MANUSCEIPTS. / CLASS 1. BIBLE, WITH BIBLE HISTOEIES, GOSPEL HAEMONIES, etc. 1. The Bible, in Latin: Vulgate version. Preceded by the Epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1, “ Prater Ambrosius ”), and by his preface to the Pentateuch (f. 3). All the books after the Pentateuch have prefaces prefixed, except Judges, Euth, Psalms, and Song of Songs, while Job, Joel, Jonah, Matthew, and Luke have two prefaces (in the case of Luke one is the author’s own preface, which precedes the other), and Amos and Maccabees three. The arrangement of books is regular, except that the Prayer of Manasses is attached to IT. Chronicles, without break or division; and Ezra and Nehemiah are joined as the 1st book of Esdras, while the 1st (apocryphal) Esdras stands as the 2nd. In the New Testament the Acts of the Apostles stands between the Pauline and Catholic Epistles. At the end (f. 426) is a table of Hebrew names with their meanings, sc. Bede’s Interpretationes Nominum Hehraicorum (Beda, Opera, ed. 1688, vol. iii. pp. 371-480), and some explanatory notes on each book (arranged in a different order), entitled “ glose divinorum librorum ” (f. 466). The text in the Gospels in many cases agrees with the readings of the Correctorium Vaticanum [Vercellone N, Wordsworth cor. vat.], which is of the 13th cent. Vellum ; ff. 478. In double columns of 54 lines, xiiith cent., probably written in France. The initial letter of each book is ornamented with a small, but finely executed, miniature, and larger initials extending the full height of the text are on ff. 1, 3 b, 342 b ; initials of chapters are in red and blue. On the last leaf is written B